In short vignettes tied to the rhythms of the seasons, Kate Fletcher, fashion and sustainability pioneer, explores interrelationships between clothing and the natural world in this first volume of Fletcher’s Almanac.
Writings and predictions for each month feature nature, not as the scenery against which fashion stories unfold, but the main event, and the connection of fashion and nature, the story. It has been said that fashion speaks capitalism. In these entries it speaks another tongue, the language of the earth.
A beautifully illustrated pocket-sized book to take with you on your forays into nature. This will be a limited edition, with the second volume of Fletcher’s Almanac coming next year.
Kate Fletcher is a Professor at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen and at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. Her work, including that on systems change, post-growth fashion, fashion localism and Earth Logic, both defines and challenges the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability. She has written and/or edited twelve books available in eight languages, and in 2022 she was identified by author Margaret Atwood as a visionary. Kate is a co-founder of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. Her most recent work is about design, clothing and nature.
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Kate Fletcher is author of several books
Earth Logic Gardening: A practical guide to Ecological, Social, Cultural & Economic Change with Mathilda Tham, 2023;
Multi-Centred Worlds, 2023;
Outfitting, Kate Fletcher and Helen Mort, 2022, Hazel Press;
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion, 2016;
Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion, 2016, Routledge;
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys, Revised edition, 2014;
Opening up the Wardrobe: A Methods Book, Edited with Ingun Grimstad Klepp 2023, Novus Press;
Wild Dress: Clothing & the Natural World, 2019, Uniform books.
The Illustrator
Danai Tsouloufa is a designer and illustrator living and working in Athens, Greece. Her artistic practice revolves around collaging images from vintage magazines and papers to craft unexpected visual narratives and spaces that operate between the figurative and the abstract. She has collaborated with Kate multiple times over the last decade. danaitsouloufa.com
Winter
january Moss: the winter coat of woodland floors 16
february The land is the thing, to care is the way 20
march The woodlands wear flowers 25
Spring
april Buzzard life: a Spring/Summer collection 32
may Hawthorn, the colour of a boil wash 36
june Quiet as larch: dressing to hear the world 39
Summer
july Needle mirrors beak 51
august Awareness: wearing more now than before 54
september Crop tops and spider silk: things from two fields ordinarily not regarded as related 57
Autumn
october The fashion system knows above all that there is a season for all things 64
november The swan travelator: mystery and familiarity 67
